It is Santa Elena!!!

Hola Familia!

I am Super jealous of the cold weather in Utah!!!!! I maybe out of a big city but it is still really hot. Santa Elena is Super green and really small. Our area is a lot smaller than my area in Paraná. The people here are really friendly and really humble. Another big change from Paraná. The branch that we have here is really strong and we have a lot of young single adults that help us alot and that are preparing for missions.

Hermana Miller is from California, around LA. Her father works as an editor and director for commercials. She graduated from BYU and she has her degree in film and so she is going to be working with her Dad when she gets home. She has these transfer and one after this left, so I maybe killing her off in April.:) She is Awesome!!! She wants to finish strong and she is really friendly and amazing with the people. I am super excited to learn from her. 

We have some really great people that she has been working with that are really progressing. There is a woman whose name is Valeria and she is awesome. She really loves reading the book of mormon and she is continually asking us questions. Her daughters are really awesome too, they are always listening in the lessons and they are always asking their mom when they can go to church. The only thing that is hard with her is that she is living with her boyfriend and he is not the best person. She doesn´t want to marry him but she is afraid to leave him. So we are praying to help her find the courage to leave him. It is so sad to see this situation but I know that she can find the strength through this gospel.

One of the things that I am learning here is that a lot of people don´t have cell phones and so it is quite fun to try and find people. Also  most of the street don´t have names and the houses don´t have numbers so that will prove to be quite fun. It is just totally a hit and miss a lot of times but and I slowing finding my way around. 

Sorry to tell you but yes our pench is really bad, but don´t worry, showering with a bucket really isn´t that bad.:) Seriously, I have plans to clean things up a bit, butwe will see if I have time for that.

I am glad that you and Derek and Uncle Jim could go down to California. I hope that you all can get things worked out with his trailer and everything. Also I hope that Derek has a safe trip back to Florida and that Kimberly and Gideon and Levi can have a safe trip to Seattle.

Well I hope that you all can have a great week and I hope that it will continue to be cold. Oh also I am super jealous of the ice fishing trip pictures and  I think pictures of model rockets!?!? 

I love you all so much and I am so excited to hear from you all next week. I am so thankful for all of you support and I am extremely grateful that we have the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives. I love it so Much!!!!!!!!!

Lots of Love,

Alayna